Retro Handhelds

Many companies and passionate modders have wanted to build the ultimate Game Boy over the last 10 or so years, and I have reviewed most of them since founding Retro Dodo. I can remember the first mass-produced modifications for Game Boys and Game Boy Colors, and to this day they are getting easier a...

Two of the most exciting handhelds of the year finally arrived in late 2024. The Retroid Pocket 5 and Pocket Mini were announced with much fanfare, offering some rather impressive upgrades over the Retroid Pocket 4 series. If your new handheld just landed on your doorstep and you're wondering where ...

Greetings friends and fellow enthusiasts. This is Mikhailov from Team Retrogue where we like retro games and the devices that bring them to us. MuOS Big Banana is currently in its beta testing phase for KoFi supporters. This version of MuOS will bring support for the newly-released Anbernic RG CubeX...

We knew that Anbernic had at least one more device to release this year. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw at least one or two more before the calendar flips to 2025. What did surprise me was seeing the RG406H actually see the light of day, seemingly meant to take on the Retroid Pocket

The Anbernic RG406H is a nice collection of iterative upgrades that we've seen from this retro handheld manufacturer over the past year. It's easily the best 4:3 handheld they've ever made, but the q...

The Spurce Dev team released a new version of Spruce for the Miyoo A30, find out below why I think this release is the “Game Changer”, which will stop A30 owners from dreaming of an OnionOS port I’m a relatively new A30 owner, I got it with the hope that, when combined with a USB-C

Are you a Retro Handheld addict? Nah, Nick thinks you're probably fine. Then again, you probably shouldn't listen to Nick.

Welp. A day after the RG406H was shown off in a few leaked images, Anbernic has confirmed that this will be its next handheld. In true Anbernic fashion, we're in line for an information drip, starting off with a "Fun Games/Extended Features Demonstration" video. As is usually the case, this gives us...

It’s not often Retroid releases a handheld, usually landing at least 4 months before releases. Ignore the 3 and 3+, please. Since 2020 Anbernic has released 30+ handhelds including their variants. At that same time? Retroid has officially announced 11. So each time another one comes around, I’ve got...

At face value, this is an easy review: the Retroid Pocket 5 is the best handheld you can buy under $250 right now. Let's talk about why.

Anbernic's mission is to provide best-in-class handheld gaming consoles and peripherals to players and open-source developers around the world. We are driven to innovate and move the gaming market forward by continuing to build high-quality products.

It's been a few weeks, but we finally know more details about Ayaneo's next Windows handheld, the Ayaneo 3. The company published a new video to its YouTube channel showing off the design, in addition to some key specs and features. https://youtu.be/GWObbquf1l4?si=TbnrDL8613DmEFRr Starting off, the ...

SZDiiER has announced three new devices to join their product lineup, but under a different brand name, Diium. SZDiiER is most notable for its D007, a line of RGB20S clones. Today, a massive shift in branding and production has been shown. The company will be using the Diium brand for these releases...

Anbernic took the design of the original RG Cube and made it weaker and more affordable. Which one should you buy? Let's compare both and decide together.

The Retroid Pocket 5 has arrived, and it's so much better than I expected. In this video I'll give my first impressions, and explain why it was love at first sight.

While still giving us no actual details, AYANEO are hyping up the AYANEO 3 Code: REVO handheld that's due to be announced properly sometime soon.

With the Retroid Pocket Mini beginning to arrive to more and more people, we were now looking forward to the launch of the Retroid Pocket 5. However, it seems that Retroid ran into a few issues, resulting in the shipment of retail units being delayed. The company provided the following statement to ...

There are now EIGHT different RG*XX devices with the same chipset. In this video we're going to compare each of them, to see which might be the best one for your use case.

We rank all of the best pocket friendly handhelds that we have reviewed over the years from budget devices to $200 power hungry Android handhelds.

Just as the weekly Retro Handhelds Podcast was kicking off, AYN dropped a massive surprise as the company announced the Odin 2 Portal handheld. This one came out of left field, as things have been pretty quiet in the AYN camp ever since the Odin 2 Mini was announced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

One of my favorite category of retro handhelds are "tiny" devices -- those that are easily pocketable but still comfortable to use. These ends up being the handhelds that I play the most, because I h...

If you read our review of the original ANBERNIC RGCUBE or watched our video review on YouTube, you’ll know that I said that it was “overpowered” and that I would have loved to of seen a cheaper, less powerful version… Well, it’s as if ANBERNIC listened and are now releasing a more affordable version...